05-07-2005
346) Kazaam. New award for most annoying little shit in a movie goes to this one. Stupid watching 1000 movies....
347) The Ox-Bow Incident. There's nothing I hate more than a damn preachy ass western. Just ONCE I'd like to see the stupid sheriff get there 10 seconds earlier to tell them they have the wrong men.
348) Green Fire. Oh Grace Kelly. Not to get all American Beauty here, but there are times when you just see something so magnificently beautiful that it makes you pause for a moment, and the first time I saw Rear Window was one of those times. When Jimmy Stewart wakes up and Kelly is standing there in that polka dot dress, I couldn't breathe for a few seconds. Since then I'll watch anything with her in it and every time I can't help but be totally enthralled with her. Anyway, the jungle setting lent the picture some good scenery and the story was decent enough, if not entirely memorable. Okay, but whatever.
349) Gun Glory. Thank the Lord. Some good old fashioned gun slinging, cattle driving action. Now all I need are some Comanche on the warpath to get the bad taste of Ox Bow out of my mouth.
350) Crash. Robin is in town, AGAIN, so we went to see this. I had seen the previews a few weeks ago and thought it looked like it might be good but also had the makings of another boring preach-fest about racism and blah blah blah. But I was really glad that it was a much more honest look at racism, i.e. there isn't some great conspiracy being carried out by THE MAN to keep minorities down, but that racism is a by product of simple humanity. In all of our worst moments of fear and anger there is an inherent need in all humans to fault "the other" but that in our best moments we only see another person who needs a hand. Man that sounded so lame, but whatever, that's what I got from the movie and I enjoyed it.
350 down, 650 to go.
347) The Ox-Bow Incident. There's nothing I hate more than a damn preachy ass western. Just ONCE I'd like to see the stupid sheriff get there 10 seconds earlier to tell them they have the wrong men.
348) Green Fire. Oh Grace Kelly. Not to get all American Beauty here, but there are times when you just see something so magnificently beautiful that it makes you pause for a moment, and the first time I saw Rear Window was one of those times. When Jimmy Stewart wakes up and Kelly is standing there in that polka dot dress, I couldn't breathe for a few seconds. Since then I'll watch anything with her in it and every time I can't help but be totally enthralled with her. Anyway, the jungle setting lent the picture some good scenery and the story was decent enough, if not entirely memorable. Okay, but whatever.
349) Gun Glory. Thank the Lord. Some good old fashioned gun slinging, cattle driving action. Now all I need are some Comanche on the warpath to get the bad taste of Ox Bow out of my mouth.
350) Crash. Robin is in town, AGAIN, so we went to see this. I had seen the previews a few weeks ago and thought it looked like it might be good but also had the makings of another boring preach-fest about racism and blah blah blah. But I was really glad that it was a much more honest look at racism, i.e. there isn't some great conspiracy being carried out by THE MAN to keep minorities down, but that racism is a by product of simple humanity. In all of our worst moments of fear and anger there is an inherent need in all humans to fault "the other" but that in our best moments we only see another person who needs a hand. Man that sounded so lame, but whatever, that's what I got from the movie and I enjoyed it.
350 down, 650 to go.
posted by Todd Jones at 12:27 AM
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The White Devil protests his absence from that movie.
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